Strike while the iron is hot.趁熱打鐵
The good seaman is known in bad weather. 驚濤駭浪，方顯英雄本色。
For man is man and master of his fate. 人就是人，是自己命運的主人。
Difficult circumstances serve as a textbook of life for people. 困難坎坷是人們的生活教科書。
Failure is the mother of success. -- Thomas Paine 失敗乃成功之母。
The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates 混混噩噩的生活不值得過。 -- 蘇格拉底
All things in their being are good for something. 天生我才必有用。
None is of freedom or of life deserving unless he daily conquers it anew. -- Erasmus 只有每天再度戰勝生活並奪取自由的人，才配享受生活的自由。
Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it, not in fear, but in gladness. -- R.M. Nixon
命運給予我們的不是失望之酒，而是機會之杯。因此，讓我們毫無畏懼，滿心愉 悅地把握命運。-- 尼克森
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. -- John Ruskin 生活沒有目標，猶如航海沒有羅盤。-- 羅斯金
What makes life dreary is the want of motive. -- George Eliot 沒有了目的，生活便鬱悶無光。 -- 喬治 埃略特
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -- Lincoln
卓越的天才不屑走旁人走過的路。他尋找迄今未開拓的地區。
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will - power. - --- Balzac 沒有偉大的意志力，便沒有雄才大略。 -- 巴爾扎克